Teams have either 12 or 13 games to play, with eight-time defending champion Juventus holding a one-point lead over Lazio; Serie A has not been canceled since World War II.
CONI said its decision did not include international competition "for clubs or national teams,'' because it does not govern those. Events around the world have been affected by the spreading virus, including Champions League matches and Japan's professional baseball season.
Late Sunday, one of the biggest tennis tournaments in the world was postponed. Earlier, the Italian swimming federation said it was withdrawing its teams from international events and canceled an Olympic qualifying meet scheduled for next week in Riccione.
More than Italian athletes qualified for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. It is the second of the four matches in the competition this week to be played in an empty stadium.
Spanish authorities previously recommended restrictions on games involving teams from areas in Italy with high numbers of virus cases and said the Valencia-Atalanta match on Tuesday will take place without fans in attendance.
Leipzig's match against Tottenham on Tuesday and Liverpool's home game against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday are expected to be played with fans. Wednesday's game in Paris will be the first match with no fans at the Parc des Princes in 10 years.
The last time that happened, in March , the decision was made following crowd trouble during a match between PSG and French rival Marseille. PSG, which lost the first leg , said it took note of the decision and said the club remains "fully mobilised to organise the match in the best possible conditions.
In the French league, the match between Lyon and visiting Reims on Friday will also be played without fans. France has banned gatherings of more than 1, people. So far, 19 people in France have died. The virus also forced the postponement of the Six Nations rugby match between France and Ireland.
French sports minister Roxana Maracineanu said the decision to postpone was made after discussions with tournament organisers and the French rugby federation. The game was due to take place on Saturday at the Stade de France.
A new date has yet to be announced. In Germany, it will be up to local authorities to decide whether fans can attend matches this weekend in the top two divisions, the league's organisers said. Last weekend's Bundesliga matches went ahead as planned with fans, though Borussia Monchengladbach refunded tickets for supporters from an area affected by the virus after asking them not to attend the game. Italian football federation president Gabriele Gravina has set up a medical taskforce to analyse the coronavirus emergency situation, with a meeting scheduled for Monday.
The match had been scheduled to take place in Legnano, north of Milan in the Lombardy region, which has been the epicentre of the outbreak of COVID, as the disease is known, in Italy.
Saturday saw more than 40 amateur and youth matches in the regions called off because of virus fears. In tennis, the final of the second-tier Challenger event in Bergamo between Ukraine's Illya Marchenko and France's Enzo Couacaud scheduled for Sunday has also been postponed, along with volleyball, golf, basketball and swimming competitions.
The first meeting of the board of directors of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, scheduled for Monday in Milan, will now take place using video.
The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. A Serie C match between Piacenza and Sambenedettese was also postponed as were several dozen youth-team and amateur matches in the Lombardy region. Italy is tackling the worst outbreak of coronavirus yet recorded in Europe, with two people dying in the north since Friday and more than infected.
Looking to prevent the spread of the disease, the government has banned public events in the worst affected areas and shut schools and universities. Inter are third in the league standings behind Lazio and the leaders, Juventus.
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